Dickens's Great Expectations: A Reader's Guide - Couverture rigide

Brinton, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826488579 ISBN 13 : 9780826488572

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2007

Synopsis

Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Great Expectations (1861) is not only one of the last great novels to be written by Dickens but is also one which centres around his primary themes: the importance of childhood in relationship to adult life, concepts of guilt and imprisonment and an analysis of individualism as opposed to the increasing bureaucracy of nineteenth-century England.This guide isan ideal introduction tothe textincluding its contexts, Dickens's style and imagery, its critical reception from the time of publication to the present, a guide to illustrated editions and film adaptations and a guide to further reading.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ian Brinton is Editor for The Use of English. He is author of Contemporary Poetry Since 1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and A Manner of Utterance: Readings in the Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Shearsman Press, 2009). He is currently working on An Andrew Crozier Reader due to be published by Carcanet in 2012.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826488579
• ISBN 13: 9780826488572
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Oliver Edwards; https://strengholt.nl/en/; ; 22 Liuleburgaz Str., floor 4, app. 9; Plovdiv; 4000; Bulgarie